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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by hot_gril on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:30PM (#37591437)
Yeah that makes sense, the same root cause can show different symptoms. Thing is, the triaging starts with the symptoms, and you might not know whether or not the root cause is platform-specific until you've spent a lot of time digging into it. So as far as the dev is concerned, maybe it's not an important bug if nobody on their big target platform is noticing it.

Depends on the type of software. I feel like PC games are on the extreme end of having lots of minor bugs and one very dominant platform.

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Re:Linux is a nightmare – only 0.8% of sales – over 50% of r... by Arnt on Thursday September 21, 2023 @09:08AM (#37597081)
In my experience it's mixed. Some bugs affect few people on the big platform, but the sheer size of the platform means that the absolute number of people affected is large, and the bad word of mouth then comes from the big platform. Others don't. Sigh. It's mixed.
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